Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

@cass_m Cool. Same here but it uses SMS. If you are feeling unwell you have the option to log in and give details.

@ClaraListensprechen@universeodon.com @smellsofbikes This one I still have. 1973. Lmao. Mine has slightly different wording.

@kc2ihx Everyone has an opinion, of course. Mine is I strongly recommend starting with a straight key so you build in the brain/muscle rhythm of the code. Then move to other keying devices if you wish. I went from straight key, to electronic paddles, then to a bug, now I prefer sideswiper.

I like making the code with my hands and I like the ability to radically change speeds on the fly if I want. You can only do the latter with straight key and sideswiper.

Long sessions, especially at 20-24 WPM gets tiring with a straight key. But a sideswiper is effortless, as easy as electronic only you're forming all of the code with your hands.

That's my experience, anyway. But I consider straight key a fundamental skill and I still use it if I'm working a beginner who wants to go real slow. I have three kinds of keys in parallel here so I can switch on the fly.

@ClaraListensprechen@universeodon.com @smellsofbikes I remember that one.

@Judeet88 doubt it's necessary. One of the first steps in statistics is to delete outliers.

@ClaraListensprechen@universeodon.com @smellsofbikes Roger that. I faded out at about the same time.

For many years I've participated in the Outbreaks Near Me program (formerly Flu Near Me), sponsored by Boston Children's Hospital. I think it's a good program. It allows you to self-report your health status at regular intervals. Many cases of Covid, including mine a year ago, and flu would otherwise go unreported. You might consider using it to help contribute more data and to see statistics in your area.

https://www.outbreaksnearme.org

#covid #flu #health #medicine #epidemic #pandemic #statistics

@ClaraListensprechen@universeodon.com @smellsofbikes Wow. Yeah, not my thing. The lab at Hughes also did silicon. I used to have some hefty scrap silicon crystals. I thought they were pretty cool as being the purest elemental substance I've even held in my hands. That's surely still true and will remain so.

@ClaraListensprechen@universeodon.com @smellsofbikes Back then 0.1 micron feature size was extremely small. We built a flip-flop that briefly held the world record toggle speed of 40 GHz.

@ClaraListensprechen@universeodon.com @smellsofbikes No, this was in California. I was designing something around samples of Intel's bubble memory product.

@ClaraListensprechen@universeodon.com @smellsofbikes I doubt I would have enjoyed the fab end of things. I got a taste of it in 1984 at Hughes Electron Dynamics where I and a partner designed and built a 0.1 micron e-beam litho system. Then we ran the chips we'd printed through the entire process, clean room, chemistry, etc. (gallium arsenide). Very interesting. Wouldn't want to do it as a steady job.

@ClaraListensprechen@universeodon.com @smellsofbikes Cool beans again. I worked with Intel's first mag bubble memory. Seems so weird today but it didn't seem weird then because I came from the generation accustomed to magnetic core memory. Lol.

@ClaraListensprechen@universeodon.com @smellsofbikes Cool beans. I've been a Mot fan since forever. Always a fan of the 6800 over the 6502. Got an early sample of an MC68000 in 1980 that I built a product prototype around. It was for a new computer-aided instruction machine I designed under contract to Bell and Howell. (Remember them?) Lol.

Back in the day, Mot and National Semi were my go-to semi suppliers.

@ClaraListensprechen@universeodon.com @smellsofbikes Hahaha. Seems to me Nylon would be a good plastic for a rugged Mil grade handheld radio, like the kind Motorola has made since the 1960s, that's immune to everything. It's used on high-end firearms, gunstocks, etc.

@ClaraListensprechen@universeodon.com @smellsofbikes Nylon is usually a translucent yellowish but I've seen white and it can be colored other colors.

@smellsofbikes @ClaraListensprechen@universeodon.com Modern electronic welders like mine do fine on lighter metal, up to 1/8". Running on 120V it delivers up to 85 amps. I usually run it on 240 but I used it on 120 until I installed a 240 feed for it. To change input voltage you just put an adaptor on the plug. It runs on anything from 100 to 250 volts.

@smellsofbikes @ClaraListensprechen@universeodon.com I was just going to mention Nylon.